Requirements Gathering Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering (Requirements Elicitation)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Requirements Gathering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Requirements Gathering over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 42 48
Rank change year-on-year +4 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing Requirements Gathering 7 13 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.54% 2.61% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 3.15% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £395 - £367
25th Percentile £425 £405 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £410 £410
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% - -11.35%
75th Percentile £522 £438 £506
90th Percentile £524 £738 £550
East of England median daily rate £500 £428 £450
% change year-on-year +16.96% -5.00% -6.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £36.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £47.25 £53.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -10.85% -18.46% +10.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 413 521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.93% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 281
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £561 £538
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 197 149
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £50.75 £22.12
East of England median hourly rate £41.25 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +3.13% +62.47% +58.84%

Requirements Gathering
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Requirements Gathering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire.

Daily rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire.

Hourly rate trend for Requirements Gathering in Cambridgeshire

Requirements Gathering
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Requirements Gathering within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Peterborough +16 4 £438 - 1
Cambridge +3 3 £513 +25.00% 5
Requirements Gathering
East of England

Requirements Gathering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle Database
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Business Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) IFS Consultant
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) RESTful
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Data Migration
1 4 (57.14%) ERP
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Data Mapping
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) API Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Management
3 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Apex Code
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) IFS
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce